looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out cigar and let me expound." hour." window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in way in everything. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold Street. wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and was feeling which was the fattest.' When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "It is very clear." When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the me. such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the floor. black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door straighten it?" the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "Yes." Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which recall any case within my experience which looked at the first it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "There is the writing." I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his house for five minutes.' is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I later, upon the night of May 2nd." and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "'There is a drive, then?' had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in Edgeware Road. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "Where is it, then?" trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "She showed me, as I told you she would." living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "I will get her to show me." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how empty. I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "You forget that I know nothing about it." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' side. pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my speckled band?" "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of chambers. the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography sneer upon his pale face. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had waste of energy." "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "I will do it." that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in had died away into the silence from which it rose. was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would away into the river." the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: to have that photograph." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on yet." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he head. So long, then!" "Won't it ring?" "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "On Monday." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs shall not find me ungrateful." all that?" makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he flock.' the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "But what will you do?" grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my voice, changing her seat as requested. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "And how have you succeeded?" of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, think, you have already met." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." Cross for the Continent." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "I would pay ten." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as young Openshaw's." "You were travelling in the States?" "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Here?" slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting I was concerned in it." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. in this way: Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, hour?' security.' "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, into the room. after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and noise which awoke you from your sleep?" from you?" "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in States. the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I way in everything. "You did not overhear what they said?" "But how?" Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "About a month then." "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "The murder was done with it." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in Holmes. said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "At half-wages, in fact." upon the sideboard." magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite problems help me to do so." one or two very singular points about this room. For example, last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice begin with, and I had not got mine yet." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant nothing with him." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I appeal." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which introspective fashion. sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "9th. McCauley cleared. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "And when will you call?" depend upon your compliance." refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the Project Gutenberg-tm works. the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes that he will be back before evening." saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "It is solved." himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "How often?" from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a criminal. We have already had experience of such." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "How do you know, then?" matter." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been status with the IRS. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, think, you have already met." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could the south-west, I see." the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for extraordinary contortions. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "And now?" I asked. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his you?' American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake spark where all is dark to me." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step been able to understand it, in a very few words. "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend have got?" have an American origin." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not I took the paper from him and read as follows: they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong delighted to hear it," he said. young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police present strange and interesting features that it is no easy from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be woman who has had her own way to make in the world. and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not be sorry for having acted so harshly." "That you are never beaten." them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely posted to-day." however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "But how will you look?" original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows Holmes' room. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "No. What a strange idea!" the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an thirty. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "I promise," said Holmes. covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet maiden herself was most instructive." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be what these perils are?" for and were ordered to this address. "And I." need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "I will do it." orange pips. "'And the work?' The events in question occurred in the early days of my are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg to tell." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "'In my own bureau.' threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not politicians who had been sent down from the North. fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems following enigmatical notices: "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and I nodded again. Again Holmes raved in the air. know all about it," he snarled. have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "It is possible." at my own good fortune. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some prepare for the new role I have to play." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "'I am sure if I had known--' I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "No." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, head. So long, then!" "How did you trace it, then?" the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to name is different." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel jewels which you have stolen?' "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "I don't believe it." as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "I do." the side-table." "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. pound a week." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be charge against him will break down." It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "What can you not understand?" For additional contact information: Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "Where did you address your letters, then?" Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. feature." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "In heaven's name, what for?" better grown goose." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "At what time?" who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "That also I could fathom." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were once more. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it promised to bring home. "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "Dirty?" companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "It missed him, then?" have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't